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Get a good producer. Confidential to the film student who doesn’t feel like reading this whole post: I ask you at least take this lesson to heart- NO, YOU CANNOT BRING A LOADED GUN ON SET JUST BECAUSE THOSE KEWL GUYS IN NEW YORK DID IT. Get a good producer. Just do it. I know [...]

Sound Off I don’t talk about it because producing dominates my life, but I have a hidden passion for sound design. In film school when we were had to choose a focus I went with producing because that’s where I saw myself, and was consoled by the fact that even if I wasn’t getting credit, [...]

2/10/12 If you haven’t read anything else about it yet, Leprechauns & Lies is our latest produced project, and first official run at a live show for the superfreakos. This is a passion project for Chad- something he’s been working on for 20 years and with the encouragement of his incredible acting teacher Gary Imhoff, [...]

Alrighty then, New Year, what’s in store for the Superfreakos? I hate resolutions but think it’s good to reflect regularly on progress and set new/ refine continuing goals for yourself and business. Here’s what I’ve got in store for my end of things through the upcoming year: Business Knowledge- Get it. All three of us [...]

Project Management A huge piece of producing, especially independent producing, is seeing a project through the process from points A to Z in as efficient a manner as possible. This can be a challenge when you’re working on a project in a medium you’ve never used before such as, oh I don’t know, animation? And [...]

Please excuse the missed week! We havenʻt been slacking, weʻve just got quite a few projects with looming deadlines that we are working over-over-overtime to make. Youʻll see them here in the coming weeks. This week is another Clean Sanchez sketch, starring Sergi Bosch and Will Bowles. We hope you have as much fun watching [...]

This week’s video is a teaser/trailer/behind-the-scenes piece for Last Days: Ante Diem, a webcomic prequel to the episodic Last Days. We recently announced this project had been selected by Celtx for Celtx Seeds, a grant program for narrative web videos. Celtx has created cloud-based scriptwriting/production software that makes it super easy to share and work [...]

Names Another interesting post from the guys at FIND’S LegalEase Blog: HOW DO I SAFELY NAME MY NEW PRODUCTION COMPANY? Q: My friends and I recently formed a production company that we plan to use to produce straight-to-DVD movies. We really like the name we picked and think it’s really distinctive. When we formed the company, [...]